Washington — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are undertaking a new venture to build partnerships with developing world institutions at the same time they pursue their respective missions to provide foreign assistance and to support science and research in the United States. Top agency leaders who announced this collaboration July 7 have hopes that the partnership may lead to solutions to development challenges that seem hugely daunting today.
"It's a win-win partnership in more ways than one," said White House science adviser John Holdren at a July 7 press briefing about the new partnership, known as Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER). "The U.S. scientific community benefits from more robust international partnerships and from an increased awareness of how research can be used to address global development challenges. Our foreign partners benefit from the expertise and enthusiasm of the scientific community."
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